sellers. Build your own reef ball for only $25 and help support our natural reefs!

Activities for the kids will be ongoing, as will the mega raffle with products and goods graciously provided by many of your favorite manufacturers and vendors!

All of this fun will be held at the Pheasant Run Resort located in St. Charles Illinois just outside of Chicago. Pheasant Run is a midwest mega resort with restaurants, lounges, golf, spas and a world class hotel among other amenities. Buy now to reserve accomodations for only $99 per night.

Paradise Corals www.paradisecorals.com has generously donated two frags of some great chalices to the Mega Raffle. Pink Paradise Watermelon Chalice and a frag of Purple Paradise Watermelon Chalice.
Check these beautiful corals out!

Don't forget to drop a few raffle tickets in the jar to win these awesome corals.
Thanks Paradise Corals!

Reef Imports and Hatchery http://reefimports.com/ has released announced the type of fish that will be won in the entry-ticket raffle! All ticket holders who enter the show will be entered to win with their ticket stub being the raffle ticket!
The donated pair of fish is none other than a platinum clownfish! Wow!
Thanks Reef Imports and Hatchery.

This press release was issued over the weekend by Aqua-Tech Co., manufacturer of Phyto2 http://www.phyto2.com/, that their new product AZOX Macro Coral diet will be released at the MACI show.The entire press release follows:

PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDATE: 02.15.12Aqua-Tech Co., manufacturer of Phyto2, has announced the launch of itís newest productwill coincide with the Marine Aquarium Conference of Illinois (MACI 2012). AZOXMacro Diet is a nutritious diet scientifically designed for the nutritional needs of bothPhotosynthetic and Non-Photosynthetic coral, Gorgonia, larval and planktivorous fish.Aqua-Tech Co. will be awarding free product, making AZOX available for purchase anddemonstrating microscopy of itís components.

AZOX Macro Coral diet is comprised of various size zooplankton gut loaded withphytoplankton and selected for their size, nutrition and attraction by coral. These smallmeaty particles are neutrally buoyant, packed with energy and ideal in aquariums withNon-Photosynthtic specimens such as gorgonia and tentacled corals. The productincludes 9 types of copepod, two strains of rotifer, two strains of brine shrimp nauplii,3 strains of phytoplankton and appetite stimulators. Packaged in a convenient pumpdispenser the product is easily broadcast fed.

Marine Aquarium Conference of Illinois (MACI) will show at the Pheasant's Run Resortin St. Charles, IL on March 11th, 2012.Marine Geek and Chicago Marine Aquarium Society proudly present a new excitingconference featuring a full day of speakers, a workshop, kids activities and a huge showfloor including a build a Reefball and your favorite vendors, local fish stores and fragshops display and selling their goods and livestock.

The event will include presentations from Kevin Kohen (Director, Live Aquaria),George Parsons (Curator, John G. Shedd Aquarium), Tal Sweet (MBI) and Julian Sprung(Owner, Two Little Fishies). There will be over 40 vendors including: Marineland,Seachem, Drs. Foster and Smith, and Two Little Fishies.

The raffle prize is a 14 gallon JBJ nano and stand and a pair of flame wrasses. Thats over $650 in retail value.

All you have to do is sign up for one of the two workshops (or both workshops for better odds!) listed above and you will get issued a raffle ticket to be entered into the drawing. It doesn't get any easier than that!

We spent some time today getting the Mega Raffle, Entry Raffle, and Workshop Raffle all organized. The following is what has been committed so far.

WOW! We didn't realize how much had come in. Thank you to all of our supporters and sponsors. Attendees and guests - please stop by these exhibitors tables at the show or check out their linked websites when considering your future purchases in an effort to say "thanks".

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